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February 26, 2006, Sunday

To the Editor: In his review of ''The Island at the Center of the World,'' Kevin Baker might have mentioned the 1662 arrest by Peter Stuyvesant of the beloved Quaker John Bowne, who was shipped off in irons to Holland, where he stood trial for...

May 2, 2004, Sunday

To the Editor: I would like to respond to Kevin Baker's review of Russell Shorto's book ''The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America'' (April 4). Shorto's book has valuable...

May 2, 2004, Sunday

To the Editor: Kevin Baker's comment, in his review of ''Triangle'' (Sept. 7), that ''before Sept. 11, the most infamous disaster in . . . New York was the Triangle Waist Company fire'' is misleading. It may be ''infamous'' in that the deaths of...

October 5, 2003, Sunday

PARADISE ALLEY By Kevin Baker HarperCollins ($26.95, hardcover) They sat in the cellar of the precinct house, trying to listen for the tumult outside. The children huddled up against the walls, tucked up into themselves, arms wrapped around...

October 6, 2002, Sunday

HERE are three recent novels full of vivid detail, weaving New York City life through larger tales of crime and corruption, on gangland life at the turn of the century, young unorthodox detectives from Brooklyn and a corrupt precinct of the New York...

In the all-too-brief best of times at Coney Island, elephants in jeweled blankets sat on their tails and waved their plump forelegs in the warm Atlantic breeze. Perched atop a water slide called Shoot the Chutes, the big-bottomed beasts came...

August 28, 1999, Saturday

To the Editor: Kevin Baker unnecessarily degrades Richard J. Daley in his review of Melvin G. Holli's book ''The American Mayor'' (May 2). A pragmatic man of his times, Daley -- far from being racially ''exclusionary'' or making ''a permanent...